Jan 10, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Doctrine, Premortal Life
Question Dear Gramps, Is it known when a spirit enters a new life? At the moment of conception? Sometime during the pregnancy? Or the moment of birth? Thank you, would love to know your thoughts. Daniel Answer Dear Daniel, There is no scriptural...
Jan 9, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Education, Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price
Question Dear Gramps The problem with the facsimiles in the Pearl of Great Price has nothing to do with them not being spoken of in the book of Abraham. The problem is the deciphering of the symbols accompanying the facsimiles, which say that it is Abraham upon...
Jan 9, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Baptism
Question Dear Gramps, In Doctrine & Covenants131 it doesn’t state that you will have to be baptized to get into the lower two levels of the celestial kingdom. So do you have to be a Mormon or not? Tyra Answer Dear Tyra, Section 131 of the...
Jan 8, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Word of Wisdom
Question Dear Gramps, I know many Mormon’s do not drink caffeinated drinks. I have heard no prophet has ever said anything against it. Is this true? What is the Church’s stance on caffeine? Justin Answer Dear Justin, It is not true that no prophet...
Jan 8, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Jesus Christ
Question Dear Gramps It is difficult to comprehend worlds without number created by Jesus, son of God. Is he the only Savior of all those worlds and do they all have to wait for his resurrection and God was once as we are and Jesus is his Son and so are we. Can...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Health, Natural Phenomena
Question Hi Gramps, I’m wondering about something that happened to me on two different occasions; a couple of years ago, several months apart. Both times I was laying in bed trying to sleep. On the first occasion, I laid down with my youngest child, trying to...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Premortal Life
Question Dear Gramps, I just read the question about why Eve was taken from Adam’s rib and not another body part, to which you answered that it is allegorical. Next, you stated that Adam and Eve were born as we are born (which I take to mean a physical birth)....
Jan 6, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prophets
Question Dear Gramps: Are the words of Gordon B. Hinckley given the same weight and consideration as the words of Moses and the other Prophets of the Old Testament? This speaks to my earlier question to you regarding solo scriptura and the doctrine of...
Jan 6, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Church History
Question Dear Gramps, I have a further question, this time concerning Joseph Smith. In the earlier versions of the Doctrine and Covenants Joseph Smith is referred to by the name “Barak Ale”. What is the significance of this name? Is it in any way related to his...
Jan 6, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Holy Ghost
Question Gramps, As I understand it, the Holy Ghost is spirit and can only be at one place at any given time. I know the Godhead are three personages and all are one in purpose. And I believe the Light of Christ can be as an influence to all throughout the...